Monday, October 18, 2010

Daring Adventure or Nothing...

I got up out of bed the other night when I was feeling the loneliness of living as a single in a "Noah’s Ark two-by-two" world. I tried to think of people that I know who are single and living out their lives in a purposeful way. I don’t know much about Luci Swindoll but I do know that she is single so I did a search for quotes by her. I’d seen at some point that she wrote a book called “I Married Adventure”. In the early morning hours I found some motivating quotes by her and was encouraged.

People have called me adventurous over the years. Then at the age of 50 my life was suddenly rerouted for a few years due to a health crisis...seriously, don't drink the water in Mexico ;)...and my dreams were seemingly shattered as a result. Even though I'm now back to good health, I’ve been uncertain about whether I will still have the energy to be adventurous. I’d become a little reluctant and hesitant to dream again, resigned to living an ‘ordinary’ life.

I’m not sure yet what the new dream...the new adventure...is, but that night after reading Luci’s quotes I got up and went to a local church that I don’t normally attend. Guess what the pastor was speaking about? Yup!! “Choosing to live an adventurous Christian life.” I think there's a message there for me loud and clear! As I learn to dream again, I am finding little day to day ways to be adventurous.
And I'm filled with a sense of quiet expectation and anticipation.

Helen Keller stated that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

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A friend just posted this Steven Curtis Chapman song: Dive...and it strikes me that it fits well with what I've written here about Adventure!

The long awaited rainsHave fallen hard upon the thirsty groundAnd carved their way to whereThe wild and rushing river can be foundAnd like the rainsI have been carried here to where the river flows yeahMy heart is racing and my knees are weakAs I walk to the edgeI know there is no turning backOnce my feet have left the ledgeAnd in the rush I hear a voiceThat’s telling me it’s time to take the leap of faithSo here I go

I’m diving in I’m going deep in over my head I want to beCaught in the rush lost in the flow in over my head I want to goThe river’s deep the river’s wide the river’s water is aliveSo sink or swim I’m diving in

There is a supernatural powerIn this mighty river’s flowIt can bring the dead to lifeAnd it can fill an empty soulAnd give a heart the only thingWorth living and worth dying for yeahBut we will never know the awesome powerOf the grace of godUntil we let ourselves get swept awayInto this holy floodSo if you’ll take my handWe’ll close our eyes and count to threeAnd take the leap of faithCome on let’s go